. Golden jubilee of the Republican Party; the celebration in Philadelphia, June 17, 18 and 19, 1906. 54, a mass meeting was held at Columbus, July 19, 1854, mass meeting in mass meeting was also said to have been held at Norris-town, Montgomery County, Penn., date unknown. The Saratoga convention was a meeting supported bv all butthree counties of the fifty-nine in the great State of New Tribune stated that it was attended by four or five hundred delegates. (Tribune, August 17, had the approval of such men asHorace Greeley and The New YorkTimes and Will
. Golden jubilee of the Republican Party; the celebration in Philadelphia, June 17, 18 and 19, 1906. 54, a mass meeting was held at Columbus, July 19, 1854, mass meeting in mass meeting was also said to have been held at Norris-town, Montgomery County, Penn., date unknown. The Saratoga convention was a meeting supported bv all butthree counties of the fifty-nine in the great State of New Tribune stated that it was attended by four or five hundred delegates. (Tribune, August 17, had the approval of such men asHorace Greeley and The New YorkTimes and William Cullen Bryantand The Evening Post (metropol-itan journals of large circulation andpowerful influence); of John A. King,Reuben E. Kenton and Myron , all subsequently Governors ofthe State of New York; Preston King,afterward United vStates Senator; JohnJay, Joseph Blunt, Vice-ChancellorWilliam McCoun, Eli Perry, and manyothers of high character and was also well understood thatthe movement had the moral supportand influence of William H. Seward,Morgan and numerous other Free. THURLOW WEEDLEADER OF NEW YORK REPUB-LICANS Thurlow Weed, Edwin D. GOLDEN JUBILEE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. 73 vSoil Whigs. Without the support of New York vState the Re-pubhcan progress would have been checked. The SaratogaSprings convention was the first regular delegate State conven-tion of the Republican party, held August 16, 1854, adjournedto Auburn, September 26, 1854. When the local Republican mass or delegate meetings are con-sidered, then the mass Republican convention held at Friendship,Allegheny County, May 20, 1854, was in all probability the firstever held in the free States. As was said in reference to the victory over the Spanish navyin Cuba, there was glory and honor enough to go all around so allthe Free States are justly entitled to credit and honor. A very important National Republican Convention wascalled by the Chairmen of the State Committees of eight free statest
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